stupid. _________________"I've touched the highest point of all my greatness;
and from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall,
like a bright exhalation in the evening
and no man see me more."
- Shakespeare

she wanted him to say it was about her - if he'd said that, i bet it would have been 3-1/2 out of 5 (especially if she was reacting to the first version of yesterday's strip).

i'm not sure if she really loves him for himself, or if she is more into the idea of being the object of someone's passion....maybe that's why slick keeps backing off, he's afraid she doesn't really want _him_, and he doesn't want to be hurt.

and she may not be letting herself really consider him, because he usually has that cool pimp thing going on, and she doesn't want to make a fool of herself - so both of them are so busy trying not to be hurt they keep hurting themselves.

...yes, i would say the characters have grown just a tad over the years._________________aka: neverscared!

- so both of them are so busy trying not to be hurt they keep hurting themselves.

...yes, i would say the characters have grown just a tad over the years.

I think you hit the nail on the head right there.

And it is startling looking back at the earlier comics, not just the steamboat willy-esqe style but also how much the characters have grown since the way back._________________The older I get, the more certain I become of one thing. True and abiding cynicism is simply a form of cowardice.

she wanted him to say it was about her - if he'd said that, i bet it would have been 3-1/2 out of 5

I think the scale was more flexible than that. She wanted Slick to be slick, and if he was, her judgement may have ended up a sultry, breathy, come-hither "out of 3 1/2."

mouse wrote:

i'm not sure if she really loves him for himself

It's pretty clear that 'Nique likes him, but I don't know if she likes him likes him.

Seriously. They are friends. Everyone seems to think that the two are either destined to hook up or star-crossed, and while I understand that such an idea is natural whenever there's any sexual tension between the two main characters of any work, we don't really have a strong enough impression of 'Nique's attitudes to say. Sometimes love really is unrequited._________________"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine